At 09:36 PM 11/7/2002 +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
Hi all (or mainly the users of Unix-like systems)
after i've bought a new notebook and installed the recent Redhat Linux system i found that an updated ConTeXt runs very slow. First i thought that Hans had too much time and implemented a few thousand new features that need their time, but ...
... it is a queerer story. Here are the run times of an example document (many inline MP graphics, 18 pages, many terminal messages !!) on different terminal programs for X-Windows:
gnome-terminal: 2 min 18 sec konsole (KDE-terminal): 1 min 30 sec xterm: 1 min 5 sec directly on the console (no X-Windows): 58 sec
Normally i use the first. Hmm... ;-(
Don't ask me for reasons, but if your ConTeXt is too slow, ask yourself if you run it on the right terminal -)
Can you check if kpsewhich runs ok? For instance kpsewhich colo-ini.tex kpsewhich cmr10.tfm maybe no ls-R file is found and consulted, resulting in a full scan of the texmf file structure. [you can also set the kpse debug switch] [here, i run a minimal context distribution which is esp on smaller jobs much faster, since in uses a 50 MEG texmf tree (including fonts) instead of the main 500 MEG one) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------